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Resource V
Web Sites

The following Web sites⁽²⁾provide online access to useful educational information, research references, and other resources for schoolwide programs.

American Educational Research Association (AERA)
http://aera.net/
AERA is a prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. This Web site provides annual meeting programs, publications, and access to papers presented at AERA's meetings.

AskEric Home Page
http://ericir.syr.edu
This Web site provides access to the ERIC database, a conference calendar, and other information about the Educational Resources Information Center.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
http://www.ascd.org/home.html
This Web site provides information about ASCD's numerous publications, professional development activities, and affiliates and networks.

B.E.S.T Education Search by Topic
http://www.education-world.com/
Search by keyword or by the Topic List, or browse the Awards for extensive reviews on current education sites.

Coalition of Essential Schools
http://www.ces.brown.edu
A wealth of information about the reform program founded by Ted Sizer and based at Brown University. Includes details about the Coalition's principles, projects, publications and membership. Also includes a link to the Web site of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

Council of the Great City Schools
http://www.cgcs.org
This Web site contains links and resources selected by this coalition of school districts in the 50 largest U.S. cities.

The Education Alliance
This Brown University organization stresses the importance of language, culture, and diversity to the success of educational reform. The Education Alliance addresses the needs of diverse student populations in the public schools by offering a variety of educational resources.

Education Week on the Web
http://www.edweek.org
This is a comprehensive guide to education news nationwide. Includes a searchable index to past issues.

Educational Resources by State
http://www.ed.gov/Programs/ERODmap.html
This page lists educational services and resources in individual states, organized into a clickable map of the United States.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math & Science
http://www.enc.org/
This home page offers exemplary materials, teaching methods, and assessment resources on K-12 curriculum materials and programs in mathematics and science. The National Clearinghouse collaborates with existing regional and national networks and coordinates its activities and resources with the Eisenhower Regional Consortia for Mathematics and Science.

The Foundation Center's Home Page
http://foundationcenter.org/
This Web site contains valuable information in the areas of private foundations, corporate grant makers, links to other philanthropic organizations, training and publications.

Global School Network
http://www.gsn.org
This Web site is packed with resources for the discriminating information consumer, especially teachers who want to use the Internet in their classrooms.

MiddleWeb
http://www.middleweb.com
Middleweb is a Web site dedicated to reform and innovation in middle schools, with an emphasis on urban issues. It contains lots of links to other online resources.

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
http://www.cse.ucla.edu/
Supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing. The Web site contains many of its research reports and other implementation.

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/
NCBE offers an array of services through the Web, including stories of successful language learning programs, subscription registration for the NCBE electronic newsletter, and discussion groups.

National Parent Information Network
http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/abtnpin.html
NPIN provides information to parents and those who work with parents to foster the exchange of parenting materials. Materials included as full text on NPIN have been reviewed for reliability and usefulness.

The New York Times on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com
The New York Times presents a large selection of stories from today's paper, plus a more in-depth look at computer and Internet issues. Users need to register to search the database and other valuable features, but it's free.

OERI National Education Research and Development Centers
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/obemla/
Valuable information is available here on specific topics such as early childhood education, student achievement in core academic subjects, and teacher preparation and training. In addition, most of the centers focus on the education of disadvantaged children.

Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA)
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/obemla/index.htm
This home page helps school districts meet their responsibility to provide equal education opportunity to limited English proficient children. It is organized around three regional clusters (Eastern, Midwestern, and Western) that are coordinated with the Comprehensive Center Network. Regional clusters contain all programs and projects for Parts A, B, and C of Title VII, and include program specialists with collective knowledge of all Title VII programs.

Pathways to School Improvement
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pathways.htm
Pathways addresses critical issues identified by educators, researchers, and community leaders. National leaders in each area provide practical research based solutions to these issues. Contributors to Pathways come from America's leading educational research centers and universities. Pathways contains a variety of articles, graphics, movies, and sound files, as well as extensive links to other exemplary Internet resources for education.

PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org
This Web site provides information on PBS programs. It includes links to individual home pages established by many shows, such as Frontline and Nova.

Putnam Valley West School District
http://putwest.boces.org/Standards.html
Putnam Valley calls itself "a small community that roams through the hills of Putnam County from the Westchester County Line northwards." Its Web site offers an impressive collection of links and resources for teachers, including extensive information on standards.

Regional Educational Laboratories
http://www.nwrel.org/national/
This home page is the central organizer for the Internet-based Educational Research & Development network. The regional educational laboratories research education issues, produce publications, and provide training programs to teachers and administrators. The laboratories help to coordinate field-based services for ED-funded technical assistance providers.

Regional Technology in Education Consortia
http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~rtc/
This Web site was established to help states, local educational agencies, and other education entities successfully integrate technologies into K-12 classrooms, library media centers, and other educational settings, including adult literacy centers.

School-to-Work Internet Gateway
http://www.stw.ed.gov/
This Web site contains current school-to-work (STW) publications, resource bulletins, resource and research material, media announcements and information on STW practices across the country.

U.S. Department of Education Consumer Guides
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/
The Education CONSUMER GUIDES series is produced by ED's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). It is published for teachers, parents, and others interested in current education themes. Some examples include: cooperative learning, student portfolios, using the Internet, and explanations of effective programs like the Comer Model, Success for All Schools and Reading Recovery.

U.S. Department of Education Grants & Contracts Information
http:/www.ed.gov/offices/OCFO/gcsindex.html
This Web site includes information on grant and other programs at ED, requesting applications, regulations for administering grant programs, and information for new grant seekers explaining the whats and hows of grants at ED.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary's Initiative on Family Involvement
http://www.ed.gov/Family/
The Partnership for Family Involvement in Education is a grassroots movement that encourages communities and individuals to rally around families and local schools in support of children's learning.

Vose School Education Resources Page
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/vose/resources/starter.html
This page was created by a teacher to introduce students and teachers to the Internet. The Web site offers comprehensive listings of Internet resources in almost all instructional content areas.

Web66
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
The Web66 project is designed to facilitate the introduction of the World Wide Web into K-12 schools. The goals of this project are to help K-12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers; to link K-12 WWW servers and the educators and students at those schools; and to help K-12 educators find and use appropriate resources on the Web.

Web Site Resources on Schoolwide Projects
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ccvi/reslinks/subject/15_title_i_schoolwide.asp
The Region VI Comprehensive Center Consortium lists several Web sites that focus on schoolwide projects. Highlighted resources include Reform Talk, an issues paper series on schoolwide projects by Center collaborator Kent Peterson; RMC Research Corporation's Effective Compensatory and Schoolwide Programs; NCREL's Schoolwide Restructuring Programs; and the U.S. Department of Education's Web site on Schoolwide Program Information.

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